s the case in Sophocle's play .
             According to Richard Jebb, "It is the only instance in which a Greek play has for its central
             theme a practical problem of conduct, involving issues, moral and political, which might be
             discussed on similar grounds in any age and in any country of the world." Perhaps personal
             experience is the reason why so many people can relate to this story. After all, the theme of the
             story is personal conflict, with two stubborn people at a standstill because of their unwillingness
             to compromise. The conflict between the laws of the gods and those of the humans, with
             Antigone and Creon representing the opposite sides. Sophocles paints these two title characters
             are remarkably similar, and he invokes the readers' sympathy toward them both. However, it is
             Creon, and not Antigone, who is the "hero" of the story, because his character suffers a tragic
             The primary conflict arises when Creon declares that no one be allowed to bury the body
             of Polynices, one of Antigone's brothers who was slain in battle. Ant
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